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The Event of Death: a Phenomenological Enquiry

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  1. Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
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Part of the book series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library (MNPL, volume 23)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Ontological Roots of the Phenomenon of Death

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-7
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    2. Individuation and Temporality

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 9-53

    3. Temporality as the Meaning of Being-Towards-Death

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 55-93

    4. Death, Time and Appropriation

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 95-129

    5. A Project Beyond Heidegger

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 131-132

  3. Death as an Ontic Event

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-142
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    2. Reflecting on One’s Own Death

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 143-192

    3. The Death of the Other

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 193-284

    4. The Phenomenon of Immortality

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 285-293

  4. Ontic/Ontological Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-299
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    2. Ontology as Concrete

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 301-324

    3. Postscript: Is Phenomenology Still Too Metaphysical?

      • Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic
      Pages 325-327

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 329-347
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Building upon the "preliminary conception of Phenomenology" introduced by Heidegger in section II of the Introduction to Sein und zeit,l one may say that a phenomenology of death would mean: "to let death, as that which shows itself, be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. " Does this mean then, that a properly phenomenological d- cription of death may reveal to us what death as a factical event is like "in the very way in which it shows itself from itself"? Although I cannot experience my death in order to describe it, may some kind of phenomenologica'l inference or "extrapolation"2 be the condition for a unique and privileged revelation of what it is like to be dead? There is an important element of phenomenological descr- tion which renders such an extrapolation implausible, and it involves what Husserl originally called the reduction to signi- cance or meaning. It can never be true for the phenomenologist, 1 Heidegger, Martin, Sein und zeit, p. 34. e. t. page 58. 2 Henry W. Johnstone Jr. thinks that while one cannot extrapo­ late from the experience of sleep to the experience of death, it may be possible to extrapolate from the phenomeno­ lQgy of sleep to the phenomenology of death. Cf. H. W. John­ stone Jr. , "Toward a Phenomenology of Death", in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, 1975, pages 396-7. Cf.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Event of Death: a Phenomenological Enquiry

  • Authors: Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic

  • Series Title: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3509-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3414-6Published: 30 November 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8068-2Published: 20 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3509-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0168-5090

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 348

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Phenomenology, Metaphysics

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